Equipment Check

by Darkover

Nixon's POV about why he was the number two man in the training drops.

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Title: "Equipment Check"

Author: Darkover

Rating: K

Disclaimer: I do not own "Band of Brothers." I greatly admire the real men about whom the miniseries was made; no offense is intended, and I very much hope none is taken. This is a work of fiction. I am not making any money off of this, so please do not sue.

Character: Lewis Nixon

Summary: Nixon's POV about why he was the number two man in the training drops.

I'm right behind him—not because he doesn't trust anyone, but because I don't. This is too important to trust that anyone else will do this right. He is too important.

So each jump, I position myself directly behind him, so that I can be the man to perform his equipment check. Sure, we all pack our own parachutes. But when it's drop time, we all depend on a buddy to check our equipment, too. Dick is never concerned about who checks his equipment, but I am. I do.

In every training jump, I'm the number two man, because I don't trust anyone else to keep him safe. If I do nothing else of consequence in this war, I will do that.